We're thrilled to announce the members of our latest Policy Leadership Cohort.
This group brings together a diverse set of policy practitioners working across the fields of digital justice, trans rights, the open source community, sex workers rights, research, and politics. Over the coming weeks, we will work closely together to share our experience and expertise, and collaboratively deepen our policy practices.
Meet the members:
After a short summer pause, the AI Openness & Equity Policy Leadership Cohort reconvened for its final session, featuring Maximilian Gahntz from Mozilla.
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Tuesday, 14 October 2025
15:00–17:00 CET | Online
As political momentum around Artificial Intelligence accelerates, its development, funding, and expansion are reshaping the policy landscape for civil society. Too often, these debates do not center justice, equity, and the public interest.
We envisioned the Openness & Equity in AI Policy Leadership Cohort as a space to bring together practitioners across the emerging technology policy ecosystem to reflect on a key question: What would it mean to write AI policy that empowers diverse communities, respects planetary boundaries, and truly serves the public benefit?
In our sixth AI Openness & Equity Policy Leadership Cohort session, we were joined by Bruce Schneier to unpack the intersection between AI openness and security. Our conversations centered on questions including:
What does “security” in the AI context actually mean?
